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| Original Title: | Helga’s Diary [Deník Helgy] |
| ISBN: | 0393077977 (ISBN13: 9780393077971) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Helga Weiss
Hardcover | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.92 | 1615 Users | 183 Reviews
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| Title | : | Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp |
| Author | : | Helga Weiss |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | January 21st 2013 by W. W. Norton (first published 2012) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. World War II. Holocaust. History. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. War |
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In 1939, Helga Weiss was an eleven-year-old Jewish schoolgirl in Prague, enduring the first wave of the Nazi invasion. As Helga witnessed Nazi brutality toward her friends and neighbors and eventually her own family she began documenting her experiences in a diary. In 1941, Helga and her parents were sent to the concentration camp of Terezin, where she continued to write with astonishing insight about her daily life. Before she was sent to Auschwitz in 1944, Helga's uncle, who worked in the Terezin records department, hid her diary and drawings in a brick wall. Miraculously, he was able to reclaim it for her after the war. Of the 15,000 children brought to Terezin and deported to Auschwitz, Helga was one of only 100 survivors.Written in school exercise books and translated here for the first time, Helga's Diary is a strikingly immediate and exceptional firsthand account of the Holocaust.
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Ratings: 3.92 From 1615 Users | 183 ReviewsWrite-Up Regarding Books Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp
I listed this as a young adult book because the author is in her childhood when she writes her diary (and after the war as she recounts all that she wasn't able to write in the moment, she writes her recollections as if they were happening right then, because she's so easily transported back (and it's so fresh in her mind) only like 15 and a half when the war ends.) However, this is a book EVERY person should read to get a feel for what it was like for kids during the Holocaust. Helga Weiss isHelgas Diary: A Young Girls Account of Life in a Concentration Camp By Helga WeissW.W. Norton & Co.April 22, 2013ISBN-10: 0393077977 ISBN-13: 978-0393077971 256 PagesTranslated by Neil BermelForward by Francine ProsePublicist: Jessica Purcell jpurcell@wwnorton.com 212-790-4267Genre: Memoir, Young Adult, History, World War II, the HolocaustHelga Weiss enjoys a happy, well-nurtured childhood in Prague. Loved by family and many close friends, the decade of the 1930s is closing with promise and
The horrors of a concentration campFor anyone interested in the holocaust, this is a must read. Helga was more fortunate than most as she remained with her mom during their imprisonment. Even as a child she was very insightful and a good communicator. Her art in the book shows a high level of talent for a young child. If you desire to know more about this period of history, you should read this book. I have read many books on the holocaust, but I had never heard of the Terezin camp. It seemed to
I liked this book for the same reasons I like all Holocaust books. However this time I really struggled with the writing style. I enjoyed reading about Helga, but I couldnt focus properly because of the way its written. Its really hard to get engrossed in a book when you dont like the writing. Some of the sentences werent written fully, and I didnt like the diary format. Rather than feeling like I was actually reading a diary, I felt like I was reading a story by an adult pretending to be a
I first knew about Helga from videos I had on Terezin, and I Never Saw Another Butterfly. She is wonderful artist, and as a young girl in Terezin was urged by her father to draw what she saw. She did a remarkable amount of drawings depicting life in that ghetto. I didn't realize she'd kept a diary also, which has just been published. She wrote the whole time in Terezin, and when she was deported to Auschwitz left her diary and her drawings to her uncle who was in a pretty secure position in the
Many who have read Anne Franks Diary wonder what would have happened if Anne had lived? Would she have went on to publish her diary? Now we meet another adolescent, Helga, a girl who wrote her Diary while she was in Terezin and was fortunate not only to come back alive after serving time in Auschwitz, Freiburg and Mauthausen but also to have an uncle who hid her diary til the end of the war. Like Annes Diary, Helgas story is told through the eyes of an adolescent but also through an artist eyes.
This account of a Czech Jewish girl (15.5 years old at the end of the war) is another diary from the concentration camps. This young girl was lucky and spent a great deal of her time as a prisoner in a place named Terezin. It is now known as the camp where the prisoners were treated humanely. Sadly, she did not spend all of her time there was ended up sent to Auschwitz and Birkenau as well. She and her mother both survived the war, though it seems barely. This account was different than others I
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